Convergence news : Anika presents The Writing Robot, EMMA, more TBA

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Annika Henderson is a musician, poet and artist who rose to fame as ANIKA with two highly acclaimed eponymous records. Recorded with Geoff Barrow of Portishead and his band Beak>, released on Stones Throw in the US.

She is well known as a DJ too, hosting a radio program on BCR Berlin Community Radio, and is seen and heard in experimental cinema. She collaborates with a variety of artists and musicians, among them Jandek, Shackleton, Dave Clarke, Michael Rother (Neu!), Andreas Reihse of Kreidler, T.Raumschmiere (Sleeping Pills and Habits), Doireann O’Malley, Ricardo Domeneck, Stine Omar / Max Boss (EASTER), Phillip Geist (for a live video mapping project and soundtrack in Tehran, Iran) or Yann Tiersen. Last year Anika released an album with her new Mexico City-based project, Exploded View, on Sacred Bones (US).

At Convergence 2018 Anika will perform a piece called Writing Robot alongside music from her back catalogue. Writing Robot is a collaborative project between musician, writer and poet, Anika and Computer Programmer, Raoul Sanders.

E.M.M.A
E.M.M.A. is a London-based DJ/producer whose technicoloured electronic music draws on hard-hitting club beats, rap and grime structures, UK funky rhythms, and melodic synthesizer music. Since the release of her astonishingly good debut album Blue Gardens in 2013, E.M.M.A. has been a regular presence on the capital’s underground music scene, DJing around the city and co-hosting the Angel Food show on Radar Radio alongside music journalist Aimee Cliff.

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